RE: Cygwin XFree86

["Scott Prive" <Scott dot Prive at storigen dot com>]

Hi there,


-----Original Message-----
From: Bang, Steinar [mailto:Steinar.bang@tandbergtv.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 1:43 AM
To: cygx
Cc: Scott Prive
Subject: RE: Cygwin XFree86


Scott Prive writes:

> I have read the users guide and also the FAQ, and made
> considerable effort searching Google for information
> on displaying remote clients over ssh.

Basically this should be enough:
 - open an xterm window on your Cygwin/XFree86
 - type 
	ssh -X your.other.host
   in the xterm, and reply to the prompt for a 
   password if you get one

That's exactly what I am doing, with the addition of "-l" to specify a
user account (since the NT username in Cygwin is set to "Administrator",
which doesn't exist on my RedHat 7.1 box).

I log in remotely just fine.

When I attempt to run an X11 application, such as "xeyes", I get no
application window. I do not even get a returned shell prompt like I
would after normal errors... the command just "sticks". Control-C
returns the prompt, with no error displayed.

You're now logged in on the remote host, with SSH
X forwarding set.  If you start an X application
on that remote host, it will show up in your
Cygwin/XFree86 window.

That's what I'm expecting. :-)
With "-v" verbosity, I see the following trail:

[root@zaphod /root]# xeyes
debug1: client_input_channel_open: ctype x11 rchan 2 win 4096 max 2048
debug1: client_request_x11: request from 192.168.100.21 35785
debug1: fd 8 setting O_NONBLOCK
debug1: channel 1: new [x11]
debug1: confirm x11
debug1: X11 connection uses different authentication protocol.
debug1: X11 rejected 1 i1/o16
debug1: channel 1: read failed
debug1: channel 1: input open -> drain
debug1: channel 1: close_read
debug1: channel 1: write failed
debug1: channel 1: output open -> closed
debug1: channel 1: close_write
debug1: X11 closed 1 i2/o128


-Scott












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